Ice cream cone package



Jun 19, 1962 J. SHAPIRO ICE CREAM CONE PACKAGE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Sept. 9, 1959 IINVENTOR. JOSEPH SHAPIRO BY ATTORNEY June 19, 1962 J. SHAPIRO ICE CREAM CONE PACKAGE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Sept. 9, 1959 FIG.7.

INVENTOR. JOSEPH SHAPIRO ATTOR N EY United States Patent O 3,039,881 ICE CREAM CONE PACKAGE Joseph Shapiro, 1200 S. Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md. Filed Sept. 9, 1959, Ser. No. 838,925 2 Claims. (Ci. 99-180) This invention relates to cardboard fillers that are used to support jacketed ice cream cones in cartons.

In copending application Ser. No. 770,ll3,'filed October 28, 1958, there is described a device for stripping such fillers from the jacketed ice cream cones which they support preparatory to feeding the jacketed cones to an ice cream filling machine. In accordance with the operation of the device, hereinafter more fully described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9, infra, a filler with a layer of the jacketed cones is placed on a rack which supports the filler at a level just below the rearwardly extending upper end bars of a slideway that leads to the filling machine. As the filler is moved forwardly on the rack, the jacketed cones are caught and supported by the bars while the cardboard filler itself moves beneath the bars and are slipped otf the cones manually, thereby releasing the cones for further travel along the slideway.

In actual practice, it was previously necessary in using conventional fillers, for the operator actually to manipulate the fillers and cones to effect separation between them because of the fact that the cones became somewhat wedged in the filler holes. The cumulative effect of such Wedging in a filler containing many cones resulted in a considerable amount of inefliciency and was quite annoying to the operator. Such wedging in many instances also resulted in breakage of the ice cream cones.

One of the objects of this invention is the provision of means for overcoming the deficiencies explained above.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a filler for such jacketed cones which do not result in the jacketed cones becoming wedged in the filler holes.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a filler of the type mentioned which will freely fall away from the jacketed cones under the force of gravity when the cones are independently supported above the filler.

These objects and still further objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description and the accompanying drawing to which reference is made in the description.

In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a carton of paper jacketed ice cream cones in accordance with this invention, a portion of the carton and a portion of one of the jacketed cones being broken away.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one of the layers of the jacketed ice cream cones, removed from the carton, with one of the jacketed cones partly broken away.

FIG. 3 is an elevational view of one of the paper jacketed cones.

FIG. 4 is an elevational view of one of the cones with the jacket removed, showing the surface grid design.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view along the line 5--5 of FIG. 3.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross sectional view of a fragmentary portion of a jacketed ice cream cone seated in an aperture of the filler.

FIG. 7 is a View similar to FIG. 6, of an ordinary or conventional filler, to demonstrate the binding efiect produced thereby.

FIG. 8 is a side elevational view on a smaller scale of a form of rack and stripper unit to which the invention is particularly adapted, and illustrating a feature of the invention.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view along the line 99 of FIG. 8.

3,039,881 Patented June 19, 1962 Referring with more particularity to the drawing in which like numerals refer to like parts, the embodiment illustrated comprises a cardboard sheet 11 which contains rows of apertures 12. The cardboard sheet 11 is provided with an upturned annular flange 13 adjacent each aperture. The flange 13 is set at an angle such that the inner edge 14 thereof is parallel to and flatly abuts the outer lateral surface 15 of paper jacketed ice cream cones 16 placed in the aperture, as clearly shown in FIG. 6.

The paper jacketed ice cream cones are of the type conventionally used in manufacturing certain ice cream novelty products, and they comprise a pastry cone 17 having a filigree exteriorsurface, such as the grid pattern shown in FIG. 4, and a conical paper jacket 18 surrounding the pastry cone 17. The paper jacket 18 extends upwardly from the top of the pastry cone 17 a substantial distance as shown in various figures of the drawing to provide a space for ice cream and toppings of various kinds.

When paper jacketed ice cream cones of this type are placed in conventional fillers 19, as shown in FIG. 7, wherein only simple apertures Zii are provided, without the upturned flange of the present invention, the upper corner edge 21 receives the entire pressure of the weight of the jacketed cones against the relatively more yieldable paper from which the jacket 18 is made and which, it appears, yields somewhat along the line of contact with the edge 21. Also, the fillers themselves are somewhat flexible, causing deflection in the portion adjacent the apertures under the weight of the jacketed cones.

When the fillers 11 with the jacketed cones therein are stacked in a carton, such as the carton 22 shown in FIG. 1, each filler, except the bottommost one, is supported by the tops of the paper jackets 18 in the filler immediately below. Thus, the deflection of the filler portions in these layers will be a function of the distance between the circular line of support surrounding the tiller holes and the holes themselves under the force applied by the cones thereabove which force becomes progressively greater from top to bottom. The apertures 20 are, thus, in the case of conventional fillers, somewhat enlarged from the original shape, thereby permitting the jacketed cones to slip down slightly therein. When these fiexural stresses are subsequently removed in unloading the cartons, or even reversed when individual jacketed cones are removed from the fillers, the edges 21 have a tendency to dig into the cone, whereby they become wedged and diflicult to remove. Severe wedging often results in breakage of the pastry cones.

By providing the upturned flange 13, :as shown in FIG. 6 and elsewhere in the drawing, this problem is completely avoided. The flexural force is now evenly distributed over a relatively wide area along the entire surface of the inner edge 14. Moreover, the forces acting on the flange 13 act parallel to it and, hence, there is increased resistance to flexing of the sheet. This can be readily demonstrated by stress-strain analysis, involving accepted mathematical equations, but it will be especially understood by those skilled in the art from the fact that the distance between the point of reaction or support and the point of force application is decreased by an amount equal to the length of the flange, the latter force being at the juncture of the flange with the horizontal portion of the cardboard sheet, while in the case of the conventional filler as shown in FIG. 7, the flexural force acts at the corner edge 21.

Thus, there are a combination of factors which contribute to the effectiveness of the present invention. The invention, however, has its most dramatic application in connection with a mechanical stripper of the type shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 whereby a layer of the jacketed cones on a filler, is set on a horizontal rack 23 and moved longitudinally toward the elevated upper end of a slide- Way 24 consisting of laterally spaced bars 25, 26, and 27 During this movement, the jacketed cones are retained by the spaced bars of the slideway and the filler sheet passes underneath the bars. In the conventional type of filler sheets (FIG. 7) it was necessary manually to separate the filler from the cones by pulling on them downwardly. But by the use of the present invention, the fillers fall off automatically solely under the force of gravity Without the need for the operator touching them.

Although the invention described herein has been explained With reference to paper jacketed ice cream cones, it is equally applicable to ice cream cones alone, Without jackets, and to cone-shaped objects generally. Accordingly, the claims appended hereto are to be construed,

Wherever possible, as relating to all such cone-shaped objects.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination of conical paper jacketed ice cream cones, and a flexible cardboard sheet having apertures therein containing said paper jacketed cones, said sheet having marginal portions adjacent said apertures bent to provide continuous upturned flanges, said flanges being l disposed at an angle such that their inner edges are substantially parallel to and flatly abuts the lateral surface of the jacketed cones.

2. A flexible cardboard sheet having apertures therein for receiving conical objects, said sheet having a marginal portion adjacent each aperture bent to provide a continuous upturned flange for supporting the conical object at the outer edge of the flange, said flange being set at an angle such that the inner edge is parallel to and flatly abuts the outer lateral surface of the conical object when said object is disposed in'the aperture.

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1. THE COMBINATION OF CONICAL PAPER JACKETED ICE CREAM CONES, AND A FLEXIBLE CARDBOARD SHEET HAVING APERTURES THEREIN CONTAINING SAID PAPER JACKETED CONES, SAID SHEET HAVING MARGINAL PORTIONS ADJACENT SAID APERTURES BENT TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS UPTURNED FLANGES, SAID FLANGES BEING DISPOSED AT AN ANGLE SUCH THAT THEIR INNER EDGES ARE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO AND FLATLY ABUTS THE LATERAL SURFACE OF THE JACKETED CONES. 